curve in many Western economies during this period, with the fall in inequality following redistribution due to …

implications for environment, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain … better environmental quality, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment …, and it dampens the effect of democracy imperfections on redistribution. …

deliberative democracy in an non-laboratory setting, using a unique dataset collected from transcripts of deliberation that … credible: its preferences approach the pivotal agent in a pure representative democracy, the median household. These effects …

institutional reforms have differential growth effects in monarchies and republics. A set of Barrotype regressions show that there … are no significant growth differences between the two regime types and that the effects of incremental reforms do not …

measure the single dimensions affects economic growth. The results show that over all, institutions promote growth in long run …

The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among … researchers and practitioners in recent years. This paper explores the role of state institutions in promoting growth using a GMM … econometric model. Specifically it attempted to test impact of two dimensions of institutions on growth using recently developed …

concise overview of the report in the eight areas it covers: poverty, education, employment and inequality, energy, the …

High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to … of inequality, which indicate diminished prospects facing those convicted of corruption. In US states over 25 years we … show that inequality and higher government relative wages significantly and robustly produce less corruption. This reverses …

and inequality in initial endowments. We find, consistent with theoretical predictions, that democracy breakdown is more …Many empirical studies have found a positive association between economic development and democracy survival across … question in a laboratory experiment with democracy defined in a narrow sense as the ability of citizens to invest freely in …

This paper explores the extent to which episodes of democratization can be explained by variation in income inequality … Robinson (2001), our empirical examination considers the possibility that the effect of income inequality on democratization …, we demonstrate that variation in income inequality can explain democratization following recessions, but that there is no …